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'I think she is simply wicked. False, superstitious, inveterately cruel but not mad. I believe her main motive in coming here was to enjoy the luxury of frightening you. 'She has frightened me. I am ashamed to own it but so it is. Henry looked at her, hesitated for a moment, and seated himself on the sofa by her side. 'I am very anxious about you, Agnes, he said.
He was just as easy and open in his disposition as ever; just as quaintly and inveterately good-humored; just as heedless in following his own impulses, lead him where they might. His bias toward the sea had strengthened with his advance to the years of manhood. From building a boat, he had now got on with two journeymen at work under him to building a decked vessel of five-and-thirty tons. Mr.
For, curiously enough, an American sailor is generally distinguished by his red frock; and an English tar by his blue one: thus reversing the national colours. The circumstance was pointed out by the captain; and we quickly explained the anomaly. But, in vain: he seemed inveterately prejudiced against us; and, in particular, eyed the doctor most distrustfully.
I had found the ladies of Florence so inveterately given to intrigue, and had seen so many instances in which the best and most affectionate of husbands were grossly deceived by their wives, that I had not only conceived an abhorrence at the idea of linking my fortunes with one of my own countrywomen, but even made a solemn vow that if ever I married, my choice should not fall upon a Tuscan.
On which, just here, Miss Gostrey inveterately questioned. "What do you, in particular, call its work?" "Well, to see me through." "But through what?" she liked to get it all out of him. "Why through this experience." That was all that would come. It regularly gave her none the less the last word. "Don't you remember how in those first days of our meeting it was I who was to see you through?"
It has a good moral effect." "Who does it have a good moral effect on?" "Well I don't know. On foreign countries, I think. We have always been under the gaze of foreign countries. There is no country in the world, sir, that pursues corruption as inveterately as we do. There is no country in the world whose representatives try each other as much as ours do, or stick to it as long on a stretch.
The most ignorant only are the most inveterately brutal: but nothing less than idiotism, or madness, can absolutely deprive man of his propensity to do good. I was further informed that a sealed paper, addressed to Mr.
Neither heaven nor earth furnishes a balsam of sufficient efficacy to heal the inveterate wounds of beings cankered to this degree: for such chronic diseases, there is "no balm in Gilead:" there is no curb sufficiently coercive to rein in the passions, to which superstition itself gives activity; which only makes them more unruly; renders them more inveterately rash.
A fair amount of common-sense, some acquaintance with the United States Statutes, an insight into character, a tact of management, a general knowledge of the world, and a reasonable but not too inveterately decided preference for his own will and judgment over those of interested people, these natural attributes and moderate acquirements will enable a consul to perform many of his duties respectably, but not to dispense with a great variety of other qualifications, only attainable by long experience.
It is all in vain they are inveterately obstinate. Distance 39 miles. Friday, 24th. We left Carcassone at seven, as we have but a short journey to-day. Arrived at Castelnaudry at half past five, and found the inn crowded with gentlemen volunteers for the cavalry. The volunteers are fine smart young men, and all well mounted. Their horses very superior to the cavalry horses in general.
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